16 Apps to Help Fight Email Spam

Spam tends to be an occupational hazard of using the internet. Everyday we receive tens or may be hundreds of spam mails, making life online unpleasant. All it takes is one rogue website to sell our email address and we will be in every spammer’s database in no time. Using temporary or disposable emails to sign up or subscribe to newsletters could help a lot in culling spam.

Today we’ll take a look at 16 web apps that provide disposable email addresses to find the best ones in this business. Jump in with me!

E4ward is a simple and straight forward disposable email service. You can create multiple email addresses on the fly. The USP of E4ward is that it allows to use your own domain name to create spam proof email ids.

E4ward

The Good: Even the reply emails sent from your own domain are masked by E4ward. You can use your own domain free of charge.

The Bad: Configuring your domain with E4ward is difficult for people who are less technical savvy.

Pricing: Free for personal use with a monthly bandwidth cap of 50 MB. Paid plans comes with extra bandwidth.

ZoEmail boasts itself of a service built using the patented address control technology developed by AT&T Labs. In a nutshell, the service allows you to receive emails only from those to whom you have mailed from the ZoEmail account. All other incoming mail are purged before reaching your inbox.

ZoeMail

The Good: The service triggers very low false positives (aka. Only spam mails get booted). A fantastic web interface in par with famous email services.

The Bad: Even the paid version comes with a tiny 24MB storage. If you forget to send an email to a prospective client before giving them out your Zoemail email id, you are screwed. No free trial.

Emailias helps you to create disposable email ids and and mails received are forwarded to your original address. When you choose not to receive mails from the particular address, just delete it to get rid of spam.

Emailias

The Good: Works right from the browser bookmarklet. No need to login to the control panel every time you need a disposable address. Replies from your inbox are masked as well. Custom domain addresses are supported.

The Bad: The User Interface looks like it was designed in the stone age.

The Good: Email IDs can be created via bookmarklets and a dedicated Firefox extension. gishPuppy remembers IDs you created for a domain and will also remind you to use them instead of creating a new one.

Spamgourmet is a disposable email ID generator with a twist. You can set the number of emails that a disposable address can get while creating the id itself. For example, you can receive only 5 emails to the following ID by replacing “x” with 5 [email protected]

spamgourmet

The Good: You can create unlimited disposable email addresses each with their own custom expiration based on mail count. Usage of Watchwords to control the misuse of your account.

The Good: spamfree24 offers 5 domains to choose from when creating a disposable email address.

The Bad: A simple guess work could let anyone to access the mails you have received in the disposable email address created.

Pricing: This is a free service.

Final Thoughts

All the disposable email address providers work as advertised, protecting your original email ID from a flood of spam. However, most of them tend to have a battered user interface. Except for OtherInbox, the rest of the services are still sporting the Web 1.0 UI. Even with an outdated UI, I found Spamgourmet to be a fantastic service with a couple of dynamite features.

In the long and the short, unless you know what you are doing, please be cautious while using services that let anyone access your emails with just simple guess work.

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More addresses to block from signing up to my websites due to the nightmare users with these disposable services cause Thanks for sharing.

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Wonderful! Thank you so much!

dixhuit

Ironic how spammy and unofficial most of those apps look.

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Thanks for the great post, some really useful tools here!

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Thank you so much for this great resource!

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I’ll just stick with GMail…Google’s spam filter is amazing. I only have to deal with spam maybe like one or two emails a week. GMail is just awesome in so many ways. In fact, it should really be in the list…and on top.

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Thanks for sharing.

BOB

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